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The git-annex Windows port is not ready for prime time. But it does exist
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now! --[[Joey]]
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## status
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* Does not work with Cygwin's build of git (that git does not consistently
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support use of DOS style paths, which git-annex uses on Windows).
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Must use Msysgit.
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* rsync special remotes are known buggy.
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* Bad file locking, it's probably not safe to run more than one git-annex
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process at the same time on Windows.
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* Ssh connection caching does not work on Windows, so `git annex get`
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has to connect twice to the remote system over ssh per file, which
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is much slower than on systems supporting connection caching.
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* `git annex watch` works, but does not detect when files are still open
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for write as they're being added (no lsof). So watch/webapp/assistant
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may be unsafe.
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* `git annex assistant` has not been tested, is probably quite incomplete.
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* Assistant is known to not transfer any files.
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(transferrer doesn't built yet)
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Need a createPipe for windows. See the mkAnonPipe in
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System.Process source. (cbits/runProcess.c)
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* No XMPP support (needs a lot of C libraries which are available in
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cygwin, but pkg-config does not list them once installed).
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* Doesn't daemonize. Maybe use
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<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Win32-services>
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or perhaps easier,
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<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Win32-services-wrapper>
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